do to do today today today today to do
the dirty do the dirty - didn't that
don't burn button bump ow I never said I
could sing hey youtubers I've been asked
to do a lesson on painting skies so
that's what you're gonna get
as always we start with the picture
already blocked in paints dry so we're
just putting a layer over the dry paint
here I'm going to start as far back as
we can to the furthest point in the
distance is where we start painting so
that's going to naturally be on the
horizon line and that also is going to
be the lightest part and as we come
forward and go near the top of the panel
we'll go steadily darker so I'm going to
show you how we blend the layers and
then after that we'll move on to the
clouds themselves so we just apply the
paint here I mean it's not you don't
have to be too neat about it and it's
blended on there on the actual panel
itself as well
you
so we're just going to give a second
coat here
all of the area of sky between the
clouds it's pretty simple pretty simple
to do I'm using a fan brush here you
know what there is no right or wrong way
to do this this is just the way I do it
you know you might find a better way of
doing it there probably is a better way
of doing it but this works well for me
of I've done it this way for many a year
but and I'll use whatever brushes to
hand needs to be a soft brush because
you don't want you don't want anything
to leave marks in the paint it needs to
be a smooth smooth as possible and just
as it happens this is the softest brush
I could find I'm not terribly good at
looking after my brushes I'll be honest
with you I don't clean them as often as
I probably should do and as a
consequence they don't last very long
but I do have a lot of brushes to add my
disposal
probably should be a bit a little bit
less lazy but as we go up here nearest
to the top of the panel we are going
darker and I'm almost done I'm kind of
not blending it as I'm going I'm just as
you can see here I'm going to put on the
darker color here there will be a line
between the dark above and the light
below and we'll blend that afterwards
and I'll show you how I'm going to do
that
so here you can see an obvious line
between the dark that I'm putting on now
and the light of just blonde and I'm
gonna do almost like a well I guess you
know it's I'm just blurring the lines I
tend to go in a diagonal so I'll go that
way and then I'll go up and down and
then I'll go on the opposite diagonal
like that if that makes any sense at all
and I'll keep going over and over it
until it's blended I tend to use a
little bit of liquid as well you want
the wet that painter says wet as
possible for as long as possible
and although the liquid interestingly
does dry out a little bit quicker it
does give you a better flow and it's
really it's a race against time to to
get the sky painted while it's still wet
because really it's the only way you can
blend a sky quickly wet on wet that's
the best way to do it so to go a bit
darker again and then just blend as you
go
you
so we've graded in that blue there and
now we're moving on to the tops of the
clouds here
I'm putting the paint on quite thick
there just because because you're
already painting on the blue below which
is still wet if I didn't put that paint
on quite thickly it would just you know
you wouldn't really cover the blue sky
so I'm putting it on nice and thick and
then I'll once again as I did with the
sky I'll blend it later
obviously not waiting before it's dry
you still need to do it while it's wet
but we'll get all those white areas
blocked in if you like
mental note to self learn how to talk
I'll go habit a talking absolute rubbish
so we're just going to continue building
up on this until we've got all the
lighter areas in in there
you
I finished this picture last
can actually is a slightly bigger
picture than I'm used to Oh Bob that
I've been used to recently I should say
I've been in the last year or two I've
had a demand for smaller pictures 12 /
12 12 or 16 this is a little bigger 16
24 but it's still you know a small
painting and probably if you're going to
paint this on a bigger scale you would
probably would end up putting more
detail in than I am here but you know
this isn't a hyper-real painting it is
it's just a fairly quick it's not loose
it's on site it's fairly photographic
but if I wanted it to be photorealistic
then I would be spending a lot lot more
time on it but so just bear in mind this
is trying we're trying to get a good
result as quickly as possible here and
this is this is quite a good technique
ash this I'm scumbling so I'm just
blurring using a different brush now but
just blurring the note to lie same brush
but I'm just blurring the underside of
the clouds here and that's quite an
effective way of doing it but it will
still need a mortar blend in a mousse
I'm doing that here with a a blender
brush no less what that is do
is taking all the tops off the paint
because I put it on thickly it's just
wiping the tops and smoothing it
essentially because I want the sky to be
smooth I don't want it to be to have too
many edges be too hard I don't want it
to detract from the landscape itself so
I just almost want it just soft
you
as we did with the the white areas we
are now adding darker areas in as well
just filling it in roughly you know it
doesn't have to be too precise and then
we'll add some we will add some lighter
areas as well but you've barely mind
doing it quickly just because it needs
to be wet the moment that starts to dry
out it's going to get sticky blending it
is going to be well almost impossible
using this technique anyway so I'm going
to get this done here I do actually use
a quick drying paint which probably
isn't ideal once again for doing this
but you know you're trying to get I'm
trying to get this picture done fairly
quickly so I want to take too long at it
I've got somebody waiting for it but if
I'm quick with the sky I'll have enough
time to blend it if it was a bigger
picture it would probably pay me to use
a slower drying paint something like
Windsor and Newton
artists quality this is we're doing
Griffin painting I'm using here which is
an alkie pane and it does dry pretty
quickly
you
I'm just going to leave you with this
time-lapse here just to finish the sky
off there are so many more things I
could say about it I could go on for
hours and hours so many different skies
so many different techniques and there
will be more videos showing you how i
paint skies and different effects and
things like that so just you know keep
your eyes open and call back every now
and again I'll I'll show you what I can
but really we could just go on forever
and ever and ever I think this is a 15
minute video but it's you know condensed
about about three hours three hours of
work in 15 minutes so if you enjoy the
video click like and be sure to check
back and see some new videos in a week's
time thanks ever so much for watching
and I'll I'll talk to you soon bye now
you